Alex Krasodomski-Jones

Alex Krasodomski-Jones is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.

Articles

Can the government nudge us towards a better internet?

Three years in the making and dogged by delays, the government today finally announced its white paper on internet harms, though not without a touch of irony the paper was leaked on Friday, presumably to ensure that Brexit didn’t swallow yet another piece of policy. There had been strong indications that the government had run […]

Technology

Fixing Facebook is harder than it looks

The DCMS committee’s report on disinformation, published yesterday, is frequently headline-worthy. The group of MPs describe Facebook as “digital gangsters”. Mark Zuckerberg comes in for particular scorn for his “contempt” of the investigation. The shadowy cabal of data brokers tied up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal get such a roasting that the report is making […]